---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 1753"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "1753"
heading: "Disposition of articles entered for fairs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/1753"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Trade Fair Program"
---

# §1753. Disposition of articles entered for fairs

- (a) **Disposition upon payment of duties and taxes—** At any time before, or within 3 months after, the closing date of any fair, any article entered for such fair under [section 1752 of this title](/usc/19/1752.md) may be sold or otherwise disposed of within, or may be removed from, the area of such fair. This subsection shall apply only if, before such disposition or removal—
  - (1) the article, after the [entry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=23) for such fair under [section 1752 of this title](/usc/19/1752.md), has been entered under any provision of the customs laws, and
  - (2) any applicable duties and internal-revenue taxes are paid on such article in its condition and quantity, and at the rate in effect, at the time of such [entry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=23) as if such article were imported or brought into the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) at the time of such [entry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=23).
- (b) **Disposition without payment of duties or taxes—** At any time before, or within 3 months after, the closing date of any fair, any article entered for such fair under [section 1752 of this title](/usc/19/1752.md) may, without the payment of any duties or internal-revenue taxes, be—
  - (1) exported,
  - (2) transferred from such fair to other customs custody status or to a foreign-trade zone,
  - (3) destroyed, or
  - (4) abandoned to the Government.
- (c) **Mandatory abandonment to Government—** If any article entered under [section 1752 of this title](/usc/19/1752.md) is still in customs custody, under such [entry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=23), at the expiration of 3 months after the closing date of the fair for which it was entered, such article shall thereupon be regarded as an article abandoned to the Government and shall be subject to sale or destruction of the article and disposition of the proceeds of sale in the manner provided for in sections [1491](/usc/19/1491.md), [1492](/usc/19/1492.md), and [1493](/usc/19/1493.md) of this title. For purposes of this subsection, any duties or internal-revenue taxes on the article shall be computed on the basis of its condition and quantity at the time it becomes subject to sale.
- (d) **Period for performance of certain acts—** Whenever any article entered under [section 1752 of this title](/usc/19/1752.md) is transferred pursuant to [subsection (b)(2)](#b-2) or entered under [subsection (a)](#a), the period prescribed for the performance of any act required by the provision governing the status to which the article is transferred, or under which the article is entered, shall run from the date of such transfer or [entry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=23).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–14, § 4, Apr. 22, 1959, 73 Stat. 18.)